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Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft

Redmond, Washington, U.S.
Full-Time
Posted Oct 07, 2025
3 days / week in-office

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About the role

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all.

Responsibilities

  • Lead by example and mentor team members to produce extensible, maintainable, and high-quality code.
  • Optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to enhance performance and maintainability.
  • Identify and implement best practices and coding patterns, providing deep expertise in coding and validation strategies.
  • Utilize debugging tools, logs, telemetry, and other methods to proactively and reactively resolve issues.
  • Oversee the identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for products, applications, services, or platforms.
  • Facilitate coordination and communication across teams to resolve conflicts and ensure security and performance.
  • Lead architectural discussions, create proposals, and oversee the testing of hypotheses and proposed solutions.
  • Mentor team members in testing and quality assurance, defining success criteria for test outcomes.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, or C#, Java, or Python.
  • 4+ years of development products and scalable distributed services, and designing and building large-scale distributed systems.
  • 4+ years of experience in cloud backend development and operation, including performance, reliability, resilience, and scale-out.
  • 4+ years of experience designing, developing, or maintaining secure software systems, with applied knowledge of authentication, data protection, access control, and secure coding practices.

Benefits

  • Industry leading healthcare
  • Educational resources
  • Discounts on products and services
  • Savings and investments
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Generous time away
  • Giving programs
  • Opportunities to network and connect

About the Company

Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end-to-end, simplified solutions.

Job Details

Salary Range

$119,800 - $234,700/yearly

Location

Redmond, Washington, U.S.

Employment Type

Full-Time

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